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The Admirable Crichton
1957 · Film · 94 min
Directed by Lewis Gilbert
Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household, he believes in treating his servants as his equals - at least sometimes. His butler, Crichton, still believes that members of the serving class should know their place and be happy there. But when the Loam family are shipwrecked on a desert island with the self-reliant Crichton and lady's maid Tweeny, the class system is put to the test.
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This reminds me of the butler android Kryten from the 90s tv show Red Dwarf. When we're introduced to him in the show, he is attending to the crew of a spaceship, however they have all been dead for an unspecified length of time. But apparently he's named "after a character called 'Crichton' in a play/film called The Admirable Crichton" [1].
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/RedDwarf/comments/1aoio58/the_origin_of_kryten/
There is a great movie called Paradise Lagoon that is similar- a family and their domestic servants are stranded on an island. Spoiler: the butler is the only guy fit to lead everyone to survival.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Admirable_Crichton_(1957_film)